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The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15
What Puzzled Her.

There are villages in the interior Of
California where the people do not
know everything. A young lady who
mas lived in an inland county all her
life. where no railroad has reached,
paid her first visit to San Francisco a
few weeks ago. She knew that she
would necessarily come across some
very strange and naw things, and she
had sealed her lips and made up her
mind firmly not to be surprised at any
thing. She was conveyed uptown, and
with her friends got on the cable car.
She did not show any interest in the
novelty. She was apparently quite ac-
customed to dummies and things, con-
ductors, engineers and impolite passen-
gers. All was we'll until the starter
blew his whistle, the conductor rang
the bell and the car went off with a
jerk. She clutched madly at the seat,
gave healthy interior-country scream,
and, quite losing control of her igno-
rance, cried out: "Jerusha! Where's
the team?"
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

You will notice how quickly thor
oughly successful article is initiated,
and also that the limitations are without
merit, as they are gotten up by I'M
scrupulous parties. Beware of imita-
tons of DR.. Jones Red Glover Tonic.
The genuine is sold by druggists, and
promptly cures dyspepsia, costiveness,
bad breath, piles, pimples, ague and
malaria diseases, poor appetite, low
spirits, headache, or diseases of the
Kidneys, stomach and liver Price
fifty cents. !. = -
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

Throat-ail seldom gets well of itself,
but deepens until it undermines the
constitution, wastes away health,
strength, and flesh, and finally fastens
itself on the lungs, completing the
wreck and ruin of the whole man. DR..
Bigelow's Positive cure is the only safe,
sure and speedy remedy for coughs,
colds and all throat and lung diseases.
Sold by druggists at fifty cents and one
dollar. Pleasant to take and safe for
children.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15
The Truly Good.

Nothing makes man so in love with
purity as purity. Many man has
been lifted out of debasing sins, against
which he has vainly struggled, by COM
ing to know pure, sweet woman. 1t
is the sight of embodied goodness that
makes us want to be good. Many a
mother, by the quiet usefulness of her
life, fills her children with the desire to
be like her that makes them in turn
unselfish. There are obscure men and
women who hardly in their own lives
utter q word of conscious teaching,
who, by their example, do more to
make people around them gentle and
truthful and Christ-like than any
preacher can do. 1t is not those who
talk about goodness, but those who are
good, that are the light of the world.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15
For the Eyes

A Russian observer, DR.. Kobe, states
with regard TO the fatigue occasioned
to the eyes by paper of various colors,
that red and green papers produce
more fatigue than blue and yellow.
and these again more than gray and
white of the same degree of brightness.
Altogether, he does not think that a
colored paper for printed books pre-
sents any advantage, as far as the eve
sight is concerned, over white paper.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

MANY Poor SUFFERER has expended
hundreds of dollars in the purchase of cost
~ medicines put up in transcription" form
for the cure of rheumatism or govt, and
without any benefit. If oil such would but
drop drugs and attack blood impurities
with VINEGAR BITTERs they would find that
nature has provided at least one remedy for
these terrible Affections.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15
AOuestfOn,

The ladies of Oberlin have debated
the question: Resolved, That the ex-
treme development Of the intellect
chills and destroys the affections
We hope the Oberlin girls will hang on
to their affections. Boston Post.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15
beautiful Custom.

In some portions Of Tyrol a peculiar
and beautiful custom prevails. When
n girl is about to be married, before
she leaves her home to 60 to the church
her mother hands her kerchief. which
is called tear kerchief. It is made of
newly-spun linen, and has never been
used 1t is with this kerchief that she
dries her tears when she leaves her
fathers house, and while she stands at
the altar. 't~
After the marriage is over and the
bride is gone with her husband to their
own new home, she folds up the kerr
chief and places it unwashed in the lin
Ell closet, where it remains untouched.
The tear kerchief has only performed
half its mission.
Children are born, grow up, marry
and move away from the old home.
Each daughter receives from the
mother new tear kerchief. Her own
still remains where it was placed in
the linen closet on the day of the mar
riage. Generations come and 90.
The young, rosy bride has become
wrinkled old woman. She may have
survived her husband and all her chill
dren.' All her friends may have died
Oft. and still that present which she re-
ceived from her mother has not full
filled its object. But it comes at last.
At last the weary eyelids close for the
last long, long sleep, and the tired,
wrinkled hands are folded over the
pulseless heart. Then the tear kercheif
is taken from its place and spread
over the placid features of the dead,
never to be removed until we are sum-
moned to come forth on the resurrcc-
ton morn.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15
What is WOman'S Worth!

asked fair damsel of a crusty old bachelor.
He did not know, so he said: "W. o. mani
double you, o mani. But a woman feels
worth little if disease has invaded her sys-
tenn and is daily sapping her strength. For
all female weaknesses, DR.. R. V. Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" stands unrivaled.
It cures the complaint and builds up the
system. Send 10 cents in stamps for PAM
phlet to Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

"Bridget, if Mr.; Wilkins comes, admit him
Mr.. johnson may come. It's not his night,
but be has been affectionate lately, and
he's just in the state of mind to make a
mistake Mr. Johnson rings the bell
B1ilget-"Misses is very sorry, sir, but She
says as how it amt your night ~
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

No cut rates about this. Only to answer
the constant caA for good and low priced
cough and Group remedy do we now intro
duce our Aliens Lung Balsam in three
sizes, 25c., Soc, and 500 a bottle at all
druggists. j..
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

The New York Morning journal says that
Mrs. F. g. Kellogg, so E. Seth Street, in
that city, was paralyzed and lay for seven
days in commissions. Seven doctors failed
to cure her, and her case was given up as
hopeless. Then st. Jacobs Oil was used.
She began to improve, and in short time
was cured.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

Economical-Mrs. Lighthead: OF course,
to give up our pew in your Church, but it
cost us SO much for the children's dancing
lessons this winter that we had to, give up
something -. .s ss.sE 4.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

II have tried Athlophoros in nv family
and it has worked like a charm. I have
kept it for the last two months,'' writes
druggist L. j. Kimball, of Norway, Mich,
giving his experience with the great rheu-
matism and neuralgia cure. r.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

We notice that in going about that these
men who are so very clever to other peo-
pie are not so to their own families We
notice this particularly when going about
our own home. o." = = ~ .
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

What ignorant people some folks are, to
be sure! When countryman was asked
what was the waist of a dress, he reckoned
it was the part that dragged on the pave
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

''Look here, judge,'' said burglar, 81
amt SO bad as you think 1 am. Only give
me time and I'll REFORM And the Judge
gave him fifteen years. ..->t -
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15
Pierce,s Pleasant Pureative Pellets.

Positively Popular; Provoke Praise; Prove
Priceless; Peculiarly Prompt; Perceptibly
Potent; Producing Permanent Profit; Pre-
Guiding Pimples and Pustules; Promoting
Purity and Peace. Purchase. Price, Petty.
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The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

Sufferers from Bronchitis will find speedy
relief by taking Ayers Cherry Pectoral.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15
I isreAR BirrERs.

is the great Blood Purifier and Efe-giy-
ing Principles; Gentle Purgative and Tonic; 8
perfect Renovation and Invigorator OF the system.
s I'm Vinegar Bitters there is vitality but
40 alcoholic or mineral poison.
Diseases Of the skin, Of whatever name
or nature, are literally dug upand carried out of
the system in short time BY the Bitters.
Vinegar Bittcrs allays feverishness. II
relieves, and in time cures Rheumatism, Ne,i-
ralgia, Gout, and similar painful diseases.
Vinegar Bitters cures Constipation and
prevents Diarrhea.
pounded possessing the power of VINEGAR BIT
TIERS to heal the sick. a5E 6
Send for either of our valuable reference
books forl ladies, for farmers, for merchants, our
Medical Treatise on Diseases, or our Catechism
on Intemperance and Tobacco, which last should
be read by every child and youth in the land.
Any two of the above books mailed free on
receipt of four cents for registration fees.
RH Mcdonald Drug Co., 5s2 Washington st, NY.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

Red Star Cough Cure does not poison the
blood. 1tdoes not leave q narcotic reaction.
1t is safe, it cures at once. Price, Is cents.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

Il Wnmau,o Mrs F. OATS Of Shn,caA Ill., writes: "When
UUmAn mad used Dr. Pierces Fayorite Prescrinfion
n,.-- one Week. could walk all over the doorEyard
6hhIlTUuE could get into ride two miles
70 see my nelghbors. I had been able to walk
49, OUT IN me door-yard for six months After using
miles, neghbo surprised to see me- IN w na no e
aDou ana helping to DO houseworl after 6OctOring
With thirteen Of the best physicians we Could xef
Ine ast one told my husband that never be able
70 90 my houseWork any more my
mad almost given up in despair" - ~ ~
TEppIp R6r aE: WILCOX WI F,tesdshtp writes:
D Mlth female weakness pes and terrible
IaM Three bottles svor rte Pr e%afp
pletely, to my great JOY" = : 49, - s- ~ ~
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

Fools will often make success where prl1-
dent people fail. r.
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

Of a friend, I read that par
Diseases 1 soon became col
uterine affection, which, as 70
ache, inward fever, nervousness
menced the use of DR.. Pier<
Golden Medical Discovery a
which he recommends in the
was well and strong.'
The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-15

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complete and final
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25

A gentleman well posted on the subject
said TO q GAZETTE man yesterday that he
doubted the expediency of the reduction
by the County Commissioners of the
assessment for the courthouse and Jail.
The tax of 10 cents on the 800 would,
he said, be enough certainly to meet the
interest on outstanding bonds issued for
these institutions, and something
over; but beside this there
was great need of build
ing an addition to the courthouse,
mainly on account OF the records. 1t
was very questionable whether the pres
ent vaults were fireproof and vaults
guaranteeing absolute protection ought
to be constructed. The loss and trouble
that would ensue from a second cremation
of the records could hardly be esti-
mated. Besides this there was not
at present near the room required.
When several men wanted to examine the
books at the same time it was 8 crowd
ing process. For these reasons the gen.
tlemsn favored letting the tax remain at
90 cents, and apply enough of the money
from this fund to putting up good
strong addition to the temple of justice,
connected with it on the west side.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25
a Fair Prospect.

Never was there more elated and
hopeful set Of people than the farmers of
Tarrant county. Their wheat and othe
small grain that they thought almost
ruined by the drouth is coming ap so fast
that it can almost be geen to grow with
the naked eye. Having sown
much larger area than ever before
i. Is almost certain that the yield OF wheat
this season will be the largest ever known
in this county,
The soil is now thoroughly soaked,
8nd there is nothing for the grain to do
but grow. There is plenty Of stock we
ter, tn grass is as fine as could be asked
for, and cattle are for the most part as fat
as they were lest summer. Under
such favorable conditions why shouldn't
the planters feel happy. THE GAZETTE
wishes with them that all the suspicious
signs OF the present may meet with the
fullest reslizations at harvest time.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25
BLAINE AND MASSACHUSETTS.
His Popularity in the State believed to BE
Greater Than Ever.

Sreatcr IMAM
Cincinnati Enquirer.
As went toward the Governors room
l found clerk or doorkeeper seated at q
desk, who went in to find whether His Ex-
cellency was at leisure. Word came out at
once to enter, and l saw Governor Oliver
Ames seated at his table in the miCdle Of
a well-lighted room, and he was as Ger
dial and unaffected as if he had been the
governor of some western territory or
new state.
l inquired whether Mr.. Blaine was not
better secured in the Republican organic
ations of Massachusetts than he had been
in the past.
eyes," said the Governor, 81 think so
Blaine has become popular man in cur
state among the Republicans. Go where
you wiil,yo will find thathi name is ever
welcomed. For good while it was al
most impossible for him to be represent
ed liz the national conventions in the pro-
portion of his popular support here. The
delegations sent to these conventions
were partly composed of men with pref
erences of their own. In 1880 Blaine got
hardly any support at al. The next
time he had some supporters, and some
of these went for Edmunds rather to pre-
vent q general departure to some third
person. As it stands atpresent the earnest
Republicans look to Mr.. Blaine more than
to anybody else as their standard bearer"
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25

the Fort Worth GAZETTE contends that TIE
Texas homestead law ought TO be modified so
as 70 not afford dishonest debtors such wide
scope for demanding their creditors, to which
the Waco Day replies that the homestead law is
n oiern invention, the outgrowlh of our Re
publican govern ment, and should be preserved
An honest revision, providing against glazing
abuses, is perhaps desirable, but any tinkerinG
that is likely to destroy the breadth of its
benefcent provisions ought to be discouraged
-lBrenham Banner.
All lnen favor homestead law; but it
should express an exemption in such spe-
Cifc terms as not to throw wide open the
door to fraud and rascality. The present
homestead law of Texas is weight upon
all the people and too often means to
robbery no less reprehensible than the
bludgeon and ssndbag.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25
THE INVESTIGATION.

The farce called can investigation into
alleged political outrages committed in
Washington county, Tex" continues day
after day in Washington. Several Re,
publicars are up there to testify and
usually manage to so shape their testi-
mony that it will give some color Of
truth to the statements made by Hack
worth, Moore and Schultze. Republican
Senators put ingeniously framed ques,
tions with a view to drawing out testi-
mony of the kind to suit Republican
purposes, and all in al it appears
TO be kind of picnic for Senator Hoar,
who has been the moving spirit in
getting up the rumpus. And while this
is the situation in the committeeman in
Washington, down in Washington county
Republicans and Democrats are talking it
over in the most cheerful spirit. Repub-
Ncans and Democrats who are friends
and neighbors, who are partners in bust.
ness, meet in the saloons at Brennan and
laugh over the Investigation" as they
quaff their glasses of foaming lager. If
the Republican part of the committee
could be dropped down in Brennan for a
half dey, without the inhabitants know
ing who they were, and take notes of
what they saw and heard, they would be
able TO realize more than they do what
Iarce they lave inaugurated. And over
1t Austin, where the Texas Legislature is
n session, the Republican member from
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25

when some money was missing, which 1t
turned out he had embezZled. Il went to
Springfield swears the Treasurer OF the
company (now the Surveyor, and got
the interest raised on the Central Bank
claim from to | 0 per cent also $500 OF
damages. The understanding was, ~
taking up that note, between the bank
officers and myself, that they would
throw off the damages and give it to me
for my trouble in collecting it. l kept it,
of course (See record in the case OF
Buckley vs.. the company Collecting
for the creditor, tn debtor gives the cred
itor's agent half the money, for his
trouble in collecting it. This is as if the
Surveyor should agree with an importer
to throw off $500 due thu government and
give it to him (the Surveyor Tor his
trouble.
"My dear Senator, was not this the act
Of thief? l ask you publicly. The
public awaits with interest your reply.
:. 1t is g remarkable verfc6tion of my
opinion CT this man, that in the very first
large contract he had to let, he should be
caught red-handed in sn attempt to
swindle the government out of $500
in s total of $4,000. And is this the man
for whom you venture to Justify party
treason and practice it Is this the man
FOR whose probity you pledged your
honor to the Senate Is it for him that
Fou desired and attempted the defeat OF 4
| Democratic nominee?
"My desr Senator, one is almost tempt
ed to believe, in view of the premises,
! that it is true, as stated in some quarters,
that there is here and there q senatorial
togs which hangs loose around its
wearer like 8 giants robe upon a dwarf
ish thief The text is in Shakespeare.
You know where to look for the COM
mentary.
yours very truly,
nJOHN NJ, CLOVER"
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25

return with her young daughter when
nursery cares are ovec. She sees mercy
in sharp experiences by which she has
learned to save her boys and girls from
like blunders and like SORROWS; that she
may teach them wisdom, makes herself
wise.
"I% is not''-writes q mother OF the
death of her frst born-''it is not for the
dsy-old baby that l mourn, but the little
one who was to keep me from feeling
lonely when my husband is rot with me;
who wss to run down the street to meet
pspa when he GENES home, the boy with
whom meant to study his lessons over
the winter fire, and whose summer sports
I wss to share; the college lad OF whose
honors I should be SO gloriouSly proud,
the man whose arm would be his old
mothers support. All these have laid
away under the snow to-day with the
wee creature that never opened its eyes
upon mine"
Such are the stages in the forward life
the renewed youth of every mother
who still holds to her breast living
child. Her offspring are her reward and
her monument.
Ii this life be not worth living. none is.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25

WHILE suffering and destirution are in
the bounds of Texas, at least the victims
are spared the additional pang which an
arctic winter brings to those similarly
suffering in Newfoundland. People in
the northern part of that island are de-
pendent ON the government to supply
their absolute necessities, and in many
cases drag themselves across long dis
tances to meet only disappointment at
the coast, the steamers having no sup
plies for them. The government has en-
deavored to avert starvation by giving
them work on a railroad, but with an
empty treasury nothing more can be done
and these people are left, for three
months to come, to the horrors of cold,
isleness and starvation.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25
A SPICY LETTER.
Repre- tentative Glover Takes His Pen in
Hand on Senator Vest.


Hand on Senator Vest.
Cine nuati Commercial Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27--The following
spicy letter addressed by Representative
Glover of Missouri to Senator Vest of
that state is somewhat outside of strictly
parliamentary correspondence.
WASHINGTON, p. C. January %, 1857.
"The Hon. George G. Vest, L. 5 Senator,
WASH gt2n, y. G..
"SIR-I am in receipt OF copy Of the
Missouri Republican of recent dste, in
which the following statement is attlibu-
ted to you.
as astor Vest is Outspokcr ard en-
phstic in declaring that if the three Off
GERS upon whom Mr.. Glover is making
wGr did oppose Glover's election, they
were fully justified by the circumstances
of the case. He holds that the bitter
personal attacks which Glover made upon
| Lancaster and Hyde were of kind thes
gentlemen could not properly overlook,
and that besides Mr.. Glover cannot fairly
claim to have ceen bona file Demo
| cratic nominee. The peculiar condition
under which his nomination was Oh.
taired, the Senator maintains, Geters the
Representative of the Ninth district from
asserting such irregularity as would
make opposition 20 his election an cffense
against party fealty'
"Permir me to pass by tie impItation
against the manner of my nomination as
too small 10 merit the attention of an
adult.
"You are pleased to justify the action
of the Democratic Officials implicated,
upon the ground of personal attacks
upon them by me. The attacks are con-
ceded. The adjective may lead to elf
ference Of opinion. But one thing is
certain, the Democracy renomlnated me
by reclamation, aud thereby Endorsed
everything that l did, approved il,
stamped its seal upon it as good and in
accordance with the best interests Of the
party. If you had as many mouth as
Hydra this answer would stop them sll.
1.-THE Lancaster referred to is Familiarity
known IS 'Darklantern Dick because Of
having been chief Of an association or
ganized to sell public Office for money.
(See the famous Gundecker depositions.)
"He Is the same man who acquired
notoriety in connection with the scheme
and charter frauds of unsavory memory.
(See any citizen of st. Louise
"He is the same man who swindled the
government in the whisky ring cases out
of 1000, and has it yet. (See the evil
dence before the house committee on
expenditures in the Treasury depart
ment, and their resolution demanding anil
investigation.) To accomplish fraudshe
committed perjury.
"He is the same man who was Treas
urer of the Big Muddy Coal Company,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-25
LAW AND ORDER,
Negroes Whippr

Negroes Whipped by a Band of yigilants.
UNION CITY, TENN Feb. 20.-The law
and order committee Was out in full force
last night. One woman and three negro
men were visited and severely whipped
To obtsia the facts in case of the kind
is almost impossible. Elder CASTOR, a
barber and preacher, one of the men
whipped, was seen to-day. He says he
does not know what ne had done to de-
serve the punishment that this morning
about O'Clock hearing a knock at his
door and answering, he was
confronted by about twenty-five
masked men, who gave him sound
whipping. The account of the affair is
given by the negroes, and must be taken
as their version. 1t is seldom that the
members of the committee act without
just cause. Each of the negroes say that
they asked the vigilants what they were
being whipped for, and one says that they
told him he had stolen a hog, another
that they thought his job of work was
too remuneratiye.